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TV Weekend: Robots, Romance, Guns and Globes

Jill Greenberg/FOX The coming weekend, in your hail of bullets: * A confession: I am not a big fan of the Terminator movies. I’m not sure whether that would have made me more or less likely to enjoy Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, but if a series is worthwhile, it should stand on its own. [...]

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Was Hillary's Moment Genuine? Calculated? Why Not Both?

I didn’t want to let my colleague Lisa Cullen have to be the last person in the world to analyze the Hillary Clinton Misty Moment in New Hampshire this week. So I have decided to take that honor on myself. The thing that gets me about all the media analysis of The Moment is that [...]

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What Are Writers Doing on The Daily Show?

Last night, on The A Daily Show, John Oliver filed Our Dead Planet, this brilliant, and seemingly news-pegged report on the imperiled Earth: That John Oliver! He’s hilarious! He’s ingenious! He’s… um.. he’s on strike, isn’t he? In fact, Oliver is not only a striking writer but has been one of the most high-profile presences [...]

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"Who Was The Winner?" Who Cares?

There was a Republican debate on Fox News last night. (Insert how-was-that-different-from-any-other-night joke here.) I watched only part of it, so I don’t have a rundown, but I have been watching (and reading) some of the morning-after analysis, which is not much different from most morning-after analysis of most debates. Much of it has been [...]

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Dead Tree Alert: Flipping the Script

NBC Photo: Paul Drinkwater What do the strike-era late-night talk show wars and the election have in common? As I say in my current print Time magazine column, “the analogy between politics and the late-night talk shows breaks down eventually.” But in both arenas over the last week or so, we saw that there were [...]

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The Morning After: She's Leavin' (Leavin'!) On That Midnight Train…

NBC Photo: Nicole Rivelli 30 Rock is gone, and we shall never laugh again. I had forgotten that there was one more original episode left, so it was a wonderful surprise when my TiVo sprung to life and started recording it last night. Wonderful, and cruel. Watching each favorite scripted show dwindle down to nothing [...]